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Died. Wells Hawks, 71, longtime press-agent of the old school; in Pomona, N.Y. In the early 1900s he publicized Julia Marlowe, Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, popularized the Mary Pickford label: "America's Sweetheart...
Died. Amos Tuck French Sr., 78, wealthy social leader at Newport and Tuxedo Park in the early 1900s; in Chester, N.H. His offspring attracted attention when: in 1911 daughter Julia Steele French eloped with the family chauffeur; in 1923 son Francis Ormond French (whose daughter, Ellen, married John Jacob Astor in 1934) became a cab driver, in 1938 applied for a WPA job. Left. By the late Simon Guggenheim, copper tycoon: to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the bulk of his estate, not yet estimated; to his widow, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, a $100,000 annuity from...
...clots), arterial disease. He also performed some of the pioneer experiments in the cause of diphtheria. Perhaps his most significant contribution was his discovery of a germ which became his namesake, the Bacillus welchii, producer of gas gangrene. This was his last piece of laboratory research. In the early 1900s he gradually moved into the spotlight, began "charming and beguiling" millionaires out of money for public health, lighting firecrackers under stodgy old professors, hammering principles of hygiene into the public ear. For some years before his death he was busy with Rockefeller projects in China...
Died. Mario Garcia Menocal, 74, twice President of Cuba (1913-21); in Havana. U.S.-educated, he was manager of the giant Cuban-American Sugar Co. plantation at Chaparra when he first entered politics in the early 1900s. Cuba's World War I sugar boom carried him into his second term. His Presidential career and the boom collapsed together...
...third story, also in Arras, in the early 1900s, the powers of hell appear chiefly to be represented by a provincial middle-class family whose unexcited, excellent life resolves a millennium of frustrations beginning with...